Adventures

Ok, some of the missionary adventures in the last week...

 - We discovered the little town of Gainesville. It looks like about 1/2 of the population is hispanic, and surprisingly there's only an english set of missionaries in the area. So we have a lot of work to do and not enough allotted miles to do it! With transfers coming up I really hope President Ames sends some Spanish missionaries to Gainesville. Maybe he'll send me?  Who knows...

 

 - We had the opportunity to see true charity in action. We happened to be over at the Pedroza's (members in the ward) and Hna. Pedroza got a call telling her that a family of investigators that the elders are teaching had absolutely no food in the house and hadn't eaten at all that day. She promptly scoured her pantry and fridge, packed up a bunch of tamales, and went to the store to get some groceries. Particularly astounding since this family isn't very well off themselves, just barely making ends meet. We followed suit and went back to our apartment and packed up all the food we weren't using and brought it over to their house. It reminds me of something Hna. Pedroza taught us. The word "caridad", charity in spanish. It's composed of "caro" (expensive, or dear) and "dar" (to give). Charity is to give that is which is dear, or something you really need yourself.

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